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Kim Jong Un and the Bomb – A Review

20 Dec 2021
As the North Korean state made remarkable leaps to its nuclear and missile capabilities under the leadership of Kim Jong-un, Ankit Panda, a journalist and editor at The Diplomat, based in…
Beijing…

“The Enemies Made this Possible”: Sino-North Korean Relations after 1948

6 Jun 202023 Dec 2020
“’The Enemies Made This Possible’: Sino-North Korean relations since 1948” with Yujin Lim, in Adrian Buzo, ed., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 131-140. Abstract: This chapter is…
Chinese communist party…

More to Life than Kim Jong-un: Reflections on Robert Collins’ Report on the Organization and Guidance Department

26 Sep 2019
  Today the NK News website published a 1600-word essay I wrote in response to Robert Collins' extensive new report on the Organization and Guidance Department of the Korean Workers' Party. A…
American Foreign Policy…

North Koreans Watching Fox

24 May 2018
This post operates on sanity-preserving ground rules: No referring to: think-pieces, think-tank analyses, journalistic hot takes, outraged or absurd Tweets (other than those thumbed out by POTUS), Chuck Schumer's courageous…
Kim Jong-un…

On the Perils of Journalistic Moonlighting for Academics

19 May 201818 Dec 2020
The inter-Korean summit which occurred on 27 April 2018 coincided with a rare stretch of open time and full energy for me, so I was able to write three pieces…
Chinese communist party…

Thunderclouds Over the Honeymoon: Xi, Kim, and the Trump Summit

18 May 2018
Amid the welter of diplomatic moves that have occurred in and around the Korean peninsula in 2018, the two meetings in quick succession between the North Korean leader and China’s…
American Foreign Policy…

On Red Lines and Reunification: Recent Remarks by the CIA Director on North Korea (updated)

31 Jan 20185 Feb 2018
[UPDATED on 5 February 2018:] Donald Trump surely makes the North Korean state nervous. But when CIA Director Mike Pompeo actually emerges from his operations bunker in Virginia, he tends…
Kim Jong-un…

Coupling and De-coupling the North Korean Missile Program from the Kim Jong-un Reformer Narrative

29 Nov 201719 May 2018
An essay earlier this year by Fyodor Tertitsky, and a recent NewsHour interview with missile specialist Jeffrey Lewis, got me thinking about the nature of the relationship between reform and…
Beijing…

Notes on the Sino-North Korean War of Words

26 Sep 20177 Jul 2021
Just because the US President has thrown up a number of smokescreens and signs of real mania of late does not mean writers must "resist" by reflexively taking an analytical…
Kim Jong-un…

Right of Reply: Kim Jong-un’s Rejoinder to American Threats at the UN General Assembly

22 Sep 2017
I imagine that most people did not expect Kim Jong-un to make a direct statement to President Trump -- I certainly didn't. But the North Korean leader has done so,…

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